The Franco Institute is pleased to announce that eleven scholars from the College of Arts & Letters have received faculty fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The new cohort follows a successful first year of the Franco Humanities Fellows program. This year's cohort includes faculty who received awards through two new programs: the Franco Public Fellowship and the Franco Mid-Career Fellowship.
Franco Humanities Fellows
Humanities Fellowships support full-time research in the humanities by individual faculty in Arts & Letters.
Emiliano Aguilar (History)
Ijeoma Kola (History)
Liam Kruger (English)
Johannes Junge Ruhland (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Emily Wang (German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies)
Xueying Wang (Theology)
Franco Public Fellows
Public Fellowships support publicly engaged scholarship by individual faculty working in any discipline in Arts & Letters.
Cyraina Johnson-Roullier (English)
Emmanuel Katongole (Theology)
Johnny Zhang (Psychology)
Franco Mid-Career Fellows
Mid-Career Fellowships support associate and full professors in any discipline in Arts & Letters aiming to develop new skills for a future research project.
Johannes Göransson (English)
Martina Lopez (Art, Art History, & Design)
Originally published by at franco.nd.edu on April 30, 2026.